1870 in science
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The year 1870 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Ecology
- Introduced rabbits reach the New South Wales border in Australia.
[edit] Mathematics
- Felix Klein constructs a model for hyperbolic geometry establishing its self-consistency and the logical independence of Euclid's fifth postulate. (Note: Eugenio Beltrami had previously given such a model in 1868.)
[edit] Medicine
- Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch establish the germ theory of disease.
[edit] Meteorology
- November 1 - In the United States, the newly-created Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast: "High winds at Chicago and Milwaukee... and along the Lakes".
[edit] Physics
- Rudolph Clausius proves the scalar virial theorem.
[edit] Technology
- February 26 - In New York City, the first pneumatic-subway is opened.
- Collotype black and white photographic process invented.
- Henry R. Heyl receives a US patent for a magic lantern movie projector.
- The stock ticker is invented by Thomas Alva Edison.
- First known use of weapons for the anti-aircraft role at Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
- March 17 - Horace Donisthorpe (d. 1951), British entomologist.
[edit] Deaths
- Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar, inventor of the first mass-produced calculator
